Example sentences of "but [pron] be [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am sorry to disturb you , Abu , ’ said Owen , ‘ but there are things I would know . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't , but there are things I have to do at home . ’ |
| 3 | Please , I 'm asking you to give me your blind trust and it 's unfair of me , but there are things I ca n't bring myself to confess just yet . |
| 4 | But there are things he does not know , and the knowledge will somewhat better a case which even so is still black enough . |
| 5 | ‘ But there are things he lacks . |
| 6 | There 's still no miracle cure for facial lines , despite manufacturers ' claims , but there are things you can do to delay them . |
| 7 | ‘ He looks strong , ’ DeVore said after a moment , ‘ but there are things you do n't know about him . |
| 8 | But there are things you would be ashamed to tell even your doctor , things so vile they can only be confessed to the lowest , most contemptible functionaries of all . |
| 9 | ‘ But there are things you have no experience of , ’ he continued inexorably as if she had n't spoken . |
| 10 | ‘ Ramprakash is a lad who could be a superb player , but there are standards you have to abide by . |
| 11 | Yeah but there 's stuff you put on before you got ta paint a certain square amount of area |
| 12 | There 's lads of real trouble there , but there was lads you know young lads with kids and mortgages and and we had er he I 'm sixty all your worries are over are n't they . |
| 13 | She wanted Roman 's arms around her , she wanted to feel him againt her without the barrier of clothes , but there were things she had to say before she could allow that to happen . |
| 14 | Mr Catterall said they never found the dog but there were signs it had been dug out by someone else . |
| 15 | She still wanted to look as she did in waking life , but there were improvements she could make . |
| 16 | No-one knew quite what he did in there but there were rumours he drank tea with his furniture and wrote furiously on the walls in a language only he understood . |
| 17 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 18 | ‘ We do n't know in detail what these would involve , but they are aspects we will be exploring precisely over the next few weeks and months . ’ |
| 19 | She was late arriving at the restaurant where she had arranged to meet her friends , but they were women she had known since university days and were busy catching up on everyone else 's news . |
| 20 | She wanted to tell him that she loved him , but they were words she had never spoken to anyone . |
| 21 | But it is time they recognised the PLO as the real representative of the Palestinian people . ’ |
| 22 | " There are other things more unkind , but it is time I went . " |
| 23 | Yes , but it is God we obey , not nature ! |
| 24 | He said : ‘ We had most of the play , but it is points we need not possession . |
| 25 | But it 's cattle you should think of in this country , perfect dairy pasture , rich it is . |
| 26 | They are warm and but it 's colour I do n't know whether I perhaps if I saw cream again this year I might buy it but erm I 'm not sure that I want to when this deep orangy colour . |
| 27 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 28 | Yes but it 's noises you do n't notice , if they 're continuous then they become |
| 29 | ‘ Well , you 're better-looking , Connie , but it 's Archie I 'd like to have a word with , ’ said Joe . |
| 30 | ‘ But it 's time you did ! ’ |